Jack released his debut EP, 'Red Shortbread' in May 2015.
The EP’s title track provides a sparse canvas for Watt’s
startling voice, a thing of range and control that belies his 20 years. The track is backed by a video which sees the
bloodied, bruised & tear-stained face of Watts and others healing in retrograde, forming an uncompromising mirror
to the idea of finding redemption from bad
experiences with someone new.

This EP bears all the apparent traces of a Sussex childhood spent by Watts locating the musical middle ground between the Dylan records of a guitar-playing father, and the inclinations a self-professed ‘Motown Mum’. It was during teen years spent listening to the likes of 29-era Ryan Adams, Jeff Buckley & Radiohead that Watts discovered not only his musical touchstones, but also a song-writing blueprint & voice of his own. Dropping out of school after GCSEs to solely pursue music, stints of varying glamour working shifts at Brighton’s Grand Hotel, Gala Bingo & a burger van later funded Watts through studies at BIMM.

A song-cycle of sorts tracing that transition from a
failed relationship into stability & contentment
elsewhere, 'Red Shortbread' is the work of a
magnetic new talent, as distinctive and
assured as the emotional territory
it inhabits is fragile.